Lee Peterson, son of the late naturalist Roger Tory Peterson (1908 - 1996), talked about the publishing history of [A Field Guide to Birds]. Originally published in 1934, the first field guide ...

Identifying birds by sound is arguably the most challenging and important skill in birding. This book makes it vastly easier to master than ever before. About the author: NATHAN PIEPLOW has been ...

The new album A Guide to the Birdsong of South America is not as scientific as the title might suggest, but the recording does capture the voices of actual birds — whistling, hooting ...

‘Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America,’ published 12 years after his death, combines the two previous guides into one, and has gone some way toward solving the map problem, putting ...

From birds and insects to fungi and flowers, here are nine guides to flora and fauna in upstate New York and the greater northeastern United States.

This new Smithsonian field guide, written by Birding magazine editor Floyd, is ideal for beginners, but also has formidable resources for experienced birders. What gives this guide the most value ...

Birds of the southwest Pacific, a field guide to the birds of the area between Samoa, New Caledonia, and Micronesia, by Ernst Mayr ... with color plates by Francis Lee Jaques and line drawings by ...

Climate change is shrinking our birds. Birds in both North and South America are getting smaller as the planet warms, and the smallest-bodied species are changing the fastest, a study reported Monday.

WITH so much of northern South America still uncharted, ornithologists have long required an unequivocal identification guide for the region's feathered fauna. These two volumes provide a fine ...

Some birds begin arriving in the Northeast in February and March, but May is the peak month, when songbirds travel (usually at night) from their wintering grounds in South and Central America to ...

Recently I looked into a number of extinct birds from all around the world, but few of them shed light on those that I would've lived alongside. Today we're "borrowing" my mom's field guide on the ...

A Field Guide To Phantasmic Birds by Kate Carr According to the State of the World’s Birds report from 2022, about half of all bird species are in decline, one in eight are threatened with extinction ...